Help with colors dulling down

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so i use krita in a macbook, runs fine, however the problem is that when im drawing the colors look very bright (sRGB-elle-V2-srgbtrc.icc as color display) but when i save the image as png, the color appear washed out, same thing happens if i screenshot the canvas. if i change the color display to p3, both the canvas on krita and the exported image will look the same (quite dull), but i wonder if there is a way to fix this so that when i export/save my image as png, the colors are as bright as on canvas with the sRGB display

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:slight_smile: Hello @chacken2005 and welcome to the forum!

It is the old story of color-management, and to understand that process in whole:

There are umpteen topics about it, the forum search would reveal it:

https://krita-artists.org/search?expanded=true&q=dull%20color

Happy reading time!
:wink:

Michelist

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Unfortunately, in none of the topics I’ve looked through have I found a solution (maybe I didn’t read enough?), other than accept that Mac and Krita want to display different colors, or accept that Mac wants to display desaturated colors.

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The default color profile for Mac’s seems to be P3 if you want to have it display in SRGB you would have to change the Mac’s profile

Apparently the desaturation could be another problem according to this srticle

See paragraph “Fix Desaturations”.

I don’t own a Mac so I can’t give any first hand experience of if this actually works.

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I tried changing the display color profile again, and realized apparently Krita needs to be restarted when doing that, otherwise changing the display to sRGB makes the display brighter and Krita even brighter than it was before, for some reason. (Conversely, changing it back to the dull default makes Krita also dull, until restarting it.)

Here’s what seemed to work for me:

  • Go to System Settings->Displays and change the color profile; for sRGB, the sRGB IEC61966-2.1 seems to work.
  • Start Krita (or GIMP) and compare to Finder (or Firefox); hopefully they should all look the same, and not too dull.

Some other things I found, in case it helps someone:

  • Or, you can copy a profile from Krita:
    • Go to the Krita app in Finder (it’s probably in /Applications/), using Shift+Cmd+G ‘Go to Folder’ (or right click the app for “Show package contents”); color profiles are in krita.app/Contents/Resources/color/icc/krita/.
    • The profile you want (default: sRGB-elle-V2-srgbtrc.icc) needs to be copied to /Library/ColorSync/Profiles/ (that’s in the root directory, not home). Then it should show up in System Settings.
  • Additionally you can try turning off True Tone in the same area of System Settings, which may make everything look less orange (depending on your lighting conditions). That affects everything equally.
  • For matching Krita to the dull display, importing my screen’s default ‘Color LCD’ to Krita in Preferences->Color Management->Display, it doesn’t show up. But Display P3 seems similar.

In the end, I guess it’s a simple fix, but knowing how to fix it seems a bit confusing.

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@freyalupen oh my god this actually worked thank you so so much

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